In article , "Tyler Hopper"
wrote:
Okay, dumb question. What is a potato leafed tomato plant and why should
I care?
Tyler
Some heirloom tomatos leaves look like potato leaves. They also have a
reasonable amount of disease resistance. In general it is a good
indicator that the plant is likely to be heirloom and an open pollinated
variety.
For example Brandywine (reputedly benchmark for flavor, but very stingy
with yield) is a potato leaved plant. So if you bought Brandywine and its
leaves looked like any other plant its likely that it was
misnamed/crossed. With Brandywine in fact there are many sources, but
only a few a good tasting ones. You should look explicitely for somebody
who says they are selling the Quisenberry/Suduth strain. So potato leaves
by themselves do not mean much.
For a history of how hairy it is to track down the various permutations of
this one variety see:
http://www.victoryseeds.com/informat...randywine.html
Roland